The Real Roosevelt: His Forceful and Fearless Utterances on Various Subjects.

First edition of this compilation of Theodore Roosevelt's forceful and fearless utterances on the great questions of his day. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with portraits. Association copy, inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for Edwin Willard Deming with the best wishes of his one-time fellow-plainsman Theodore Roosevelt." The recipient, Edwin Willard Deming, was a celebrated American painter, muralist, and sculptor of Native American life and western wildlife who spent three decades among the Apache, Pueblo, Umatilla, and Blackfeet peoples, the last of whom adopted him and gave him the name Eight Bears. Roosevelt, who had ranched in the Dakota Badlands in the 1880s and shared Deming's deep attachment to the American West, was the artist's foremost literary correspondent and famously urged him to paint the Indians as he knew them. Here the former president salutes Deming as a fellow plainsman. In very good condition, bookplate of Edwin Willard Deming to the front pastedown. Selected and arranged by Alan Warner. Foreword by Lyman Abbott.